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Mad Dogs And...

Humphry Berkeley The White Pumpkin Denis Hills (Allen and Unwin £6.95) This is an untidy, unplanned but fascinating book, a description which may equally apply to the author.......

Amours Et Voyages

Richard Shone A Romantic Friendship: The Letters of Cyril C onno/iy to Noel Blakiston (Constable £5.50) "Life without love for me has always seemed like an operation without an......

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The middle ground Isabel Quigly Between eight and eleven the bookish child really reads, reads hard, reads almost anything, as if stoking up before the moony, critical,......